CORPORATIONS - CAPITAL, CAPITAL STOCK AND STOCK

The recent case of Haggard v. Lexington Utilities Co. is typical of the nominalistic confusion occasioned by the use of the terms capital and capital stock. Whatever progress the courts have made toward making them words of precise signification has not been reflected in the drafting of statutes, where they are employed to represent a bewildering number of connotations. The courts have recognized this and have not sought to make them words of art with a single, definitive meaning but through the mechanics of statutory interpretation have sought to divine the legislative intent

The use of certain social group work concepts in the development of citizen participation in urban renewal: A study of the activities of a social worker assigned to develop citizen participation in the neighborhoods of a large residential district of Boston

Thesis (M.S.)--Boston Universit

Electromechanical modeling, performance testing, and design of piezoelectric polymer film ultrasound transducers

The frequency-dependent lossy properties of piezoelectric polymer films prohibit the direct application of classical electromechanical circuit models. As a result, techniques have been unavailable for accurate simulation of piezo film ultrasound transducer performance;The first part of this work describes a method for determining the piezoelectric constants and the frequency-dependent dielectric properties for the polymers, from analysis of air-loaded broadband impedance measurements. It is then shown how to account for the frequency-dependent lossy properties of these films in a simple impedance circuit model and a modified Mason\u27s model. Comparisons between the models and actual film transducers show excellent broadband simulation of both electrical input impedance and ultrasonic pulse-echo performance;In the second part of this work, the modified Mason\u27s models were incorporated into an interactive design/simulation computer program. The simulation program provides an investigator with the means for performing 180 different quantitative tests of a prototype design, using any tuning or matching scheme;In the third part of this work, submersible P(VF[subscript]2-VF[subscript]3) ultrasound transducer probes were constructed and tests revealed excellent broadband ultrasonic performance. Comparisons between actual and predicted pulse-echo ultrasonic waveforms confirmed the accuracy and reliability of the derived modified Mason\u27s models and simulation techniques

Alien Registration- Brown, Frederick G. (Fort Fairfield, Aroostook County)

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Moessbauer spectroscopy and scanning electron microscopy of the Murchison meteorite

Meteorites provide a wealth of information about the solar system's formation, since they have similar building blocks as the Earth's crust but have been virtually unaltered since their formation. Some stony meteorites contain minerals and silicate inclusions, called chondrules, in the matrix. Utilizing Moessbauer spectroscopy, we identified minerals in the Murchison meteorite, a carbonaceous chondritic meteorite, by the gamma ray resonance lines observed. Absorption patterns of the spectra were found due to the minerals olivine and phyllosilicate. We used a scanning electron microscope to describe the structure of the chondrules in the Murchison meteorite. The chondrules were found to be deformed due to weathering of the meteorite. Diameters varied in size from 0.2 to 0.5 mm. Further enhancement of the microscopic imagery using a digital image processor was used to describe the physical characteristics of the inclusions

The Role of Arbitration in Resolving Transnational Disputes: A Survey of Trends in the People’s Republic of China

The purpose of this Essay is to provide investors and practitioners with a realistic overview of the strengths and limitations of international arbitration in China. Part I of this Essay provides some general comments about the economic, social, and cultural reasons why arbitration is a popular choice among both international investors and Chinese nationals. Part I concludes that arbitration can only provide a partial solution to the ills of China’s legal system. Part II examines how the observations in Part I manifest themselves in recent developments affecting arbitration in China. Part III examines the range of efforts by foreign investors and the U.S. Government to diminish and eventually remove limitations on arbitration in China

The Use of Apps to Prime Learning for a Verbal Task

This study tested whether or not children’s memory performance would be affected by stimulating brain activity by completing a verbal puzzle task or a non-verbal puzzle task prior to a verbal learning task